Autobiographies: 'In the Poorhouse' & 'The Pianist'

25-26 Oct 06 (in the Arena)

In the Poorhouse
Text: Thomas Bernhard, In the Poorhouse (tr. Martin Chalmers)
Music: Jackitt & Vyngira, Mefiance
(accordion played by Georges Jo Privat)

The Pianist

Text: Wladyslaw Szpilman, The Pianist (tr. A. Bell)
Music: Chopin - Polonaise-Fantasie, op.61, Wladislaw Szpilman, piano
(Polish Radio broadcast, 1950);
Zabczynski, Wiehler & Jurandot - Tak jak ty [Like you do]
(from the 1936 film Ada, to nie wypada [Ada, that will never do],
dir. Konrad Tom);
Szpilman – Mazurka, Wladislaw Szpilman, piano
(Swedish Radio broadcast, 1946)

Photographs of Warsaw taken by Adina Szwajger, Joe Heydecker, and unknown others (1941-45)
With thanks to Anne Haaning